5.3 Getting Started with Property Graphs

Follow these steps to get started with property graphs.

1. The first time you use property graphs, ensure that the software is installed and operational.
2. Interact with a graph using one or more of the following options:
   • Use Java APIs in your Java application. The Java APIs can also be run in the JShell Command line interface for prototype and demo purposes.
   • Run PGQL queries:
     • In the Java application, or
     • In the Graph visualization interface, or
     • In the SQLcl client
   • Run PGQL queries and execute Java APIs in the Apache Zeppelin interpreter

• Required Privileges for Database Users
  The database schema that contains the graph tables (either Property Graph schema objects or relational tables that will be directly loaded as a graph in memory) requires certain privileges.